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@EdwardAngert EdwardAngert commented Mar 17, 2025

followup to @d1str0's #16937

Adds a small note for those who just used the AWS AMI for their initial installation.

This PR rearranges the Upgrade doc to use tabs for each section + adds AWS AMI

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Adds a small note for those who just used the AWS AMI for their initial
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The script will unpack the new `coder` binary version over the one currently
installed.

1. If you're running Coder as a system service, you can restart it with `systemctl`:
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If it's the AWS AMI I believe they will definitely be running as a system service and should carry out this step.

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🙌 awesome - thanks! reworded in 9c05640

@@ -50,3 +72,5 @@ from Winget.
```pwsh
winget install Coder.Coder
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I think this was an accident to add since this is just Markdown.

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Thanks! this is (closing) our tabs component. Makes it look like this:

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oh interesting!

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The instruction for AWS AMI, GCP VM apply generally whenever Coder is installed via Install script on any systemd supported distro.

I don't feel very positive on if we should add a dedicated tab for AWS AMI case and should handle it more generally.

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d1str0 commented Mar 18, 2025

The issue I was trying to solve in my original PR is that my first experience with coder was with the AWS AMI. Almost immediately after booting I got a notice to update to a newer version, and the instructions to do so didn't specify how to update if you were using the AMI. I wasn't sure if the AMI was created using the Install.sh method so I didn't know the proper path to update.

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The instruction for AWS AMI, GCP VM apply generally whenever Coder is installed via Install script on any systemd supported distro.

I don't feel very positive on if we should add a dedicated tab for AWS AMI case and should handle it more generally.

@matifali I get what you're saying, but I think we should side with easier findability here.

I think we have enough people using the AMI (or will be soon) that we want to answer the question they're asking in an obvious way. Say if they search "update coder aws ami," (like @d1str0 probably did) they'll find a heading that looks like their answer rather than deciding whether or not our documented generic answer fits their issue

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@EdwardAngert EdwardAngert merged commit bd243c1 into main Mar 19, 2025
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